[WHO IS Jake Ryan?] I don’t see a Romney campaign embracingthis as an official strategy, he has at least one NRO reader smitten:

I’m serious. LOOK at him.
1. He’s handsome.
2. He’s rich. I’ll bet he drove a nice car in high school.
3. He’s nice. Really nice.
4. He married his high school girl friend who…wait for it…would have been about the age of a sophomore when he was a senior.
5. He comes to our rescue. We needed the SL Olympics to be clean, to be safe, to help to heal us after September 11th, and it did. (Based on what we’re hearing about the Twin Towers “memorial,” the Olympics seem to have gone farther than that will.) 6. He’s popular. He was elected as a Republican and a Mormon in Massachusetts. (Which is not as shocking as a Republican and a Mormon being elected in New York City, but it’s still very unusual.)
7. We like him. We really do.
8. Okay, so I don’t know about the cake and the dining room table, but I’ll bet he is a good husband and father. I’ll bet he’s changed diapers and worn spit up.
Just be sure not to confuse him with Jack Ryan. I am not insinuating that he is a spymaster with a fear of flying, a bad back, shadowy field agents in the background and terrorists coming after him.

And if you’re wondering why I just posted that…because I am behind on work and it was there in my inbox, crying out to be posted. (Consider it all an application for one of VH-1’s silly commentary shows.)